What can honestly go wrong when you put Joe Pesci in a courtroom and have him get upset at everyone for two hours? The makers of "My Cousin Vinny" apparently thought the same thing, because that's pretty much their entire premise. There's not much more to this movie when it comes to material, but thankfully Pesci and Marisa Tomei (who got an Oscar out of it) make all this stuff work. Everyone who watches this will probably know how the movie's going to play out (i.e. happily), almost scene by scene, but somehow it just doesn't matter here because for once you actually want the people in a Hollywood movie to be happy. Every single character in this movie has a certain likability to him, even the antagonists aren't the classic "bad guys" that lazier actors would have gone for. "My Cousin Vinny" isn't a great movie, it's not the funniest movie I've ever seen either, but somehow it still puts a smile on your face throughout. The very definition of "feel good".
Review of My Cousin Vinny
